Project Rider - a new cross-platform C# IDE from JetBrains

This was just announced today: http://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2016/01/13/project-rider-a-csharp-ide/

Sounds super exciting as it brings all the IDE goodness such as navigation, refactoring, etc as well as the power of ReSharper to non Windows platforms

I hope it will support Unity early on ! looks promising

 

Not only is it cross platform, this is super exciting because JetBrains IDEs are simply the best. The features in ReSharper won't even come close to a full IDE by these guys.

As long as they release a free community edition similar to their IntelliJ IDEA or what Microsoft has done with Visual Studio community, there's no reason Project Rider shouldn't become the standard Unity editor.. it's a match made in heaven.

 

EAP version served. It's able to use the Unity generated solution.

 

.. Just installed Rider and it looks great. Opening my Unity project sorta works, but not really..

Which file do you import and how?

 

Just the solution (the .sln file) by open project.

 

Here is something for Windows users who want to take Rider for a spin. At first I setup Rider to be launched via .bat to open the solution file automatically, but got annoyed that focus didn't switch over to Rider. So I made this VBScript, it is not perfect but maybe it gives you ideas and something to build upon. And if you do make it better, don't forget to share your modifications

https://www.dropbox.com/s/90c4xhwfgp3cw24/UnityToRider.vbs?dl=0

 

I don't wanna be a spoiler, but R# itself doesn't work perfectly w/ Unity+VS. You may say, what about take it as an alternative to VS/MD? In short, nope Check this blog https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2016/01/13/project-rider-a-csharp-ide/
Some asked "Will this support older versions of mono? Specifically for unity engine development." and replied "There are no plans at the moment".
Jetbrains is a great company, I really hope project rider can go further than VSCode, it may takes time though.

 

I expect this solution work for any OS.
https://gist.github.com/van800/4cbc81c32e41db89155bb66fa68ca4b0

 

This thread has also some useful info to get it to work:

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RIDER-1141#comment=27-1441550

If anyone has a complete step by step guide, that'd be very helpful. I think right now there's a lot of parts of solutions floating around online, but it's very hard to understand which ones actually work (for the current, at time of writing, solution).

 

i keep trying rider every month or so, but it sitll dosnt seem mature enough to use in production, so seems its more of a waiting game till it gets more stable and complete.

 

Still using Rider, but it's not perfect. Seems like the latest builds are getting almost less stable in some ways.

E.g. I am no longer able to make Rider jump to a line and file by clicking e.g. a debug message in Unity. The frustrating thing is that this used to work.

( I'm using this script to make Unity generate a Mono 4.5 csproj file )

If anyone has got this working on Windows with the latest build (146.2572) , please share how

 

For me navigating to line worked and works only if Solution was already opened in Rider.

 

Can anybody help me with this An error has occurred. - Big key image is required
I just wanted to submit the Unity-Rider integration to the asset store, but no luck.